I can't seem to get myself to focus when one of these things is running. I transition into low effort mode. Because of this I've decided to have my good hours of the day LLM free, and then in my crappy hours I'll have one of these running.
Not sure if I improved using agents over time, or just having it in a separate window forces you to use them only when you need. Having it in the IDE seems the "natural" way to start something and now you are trapped in a conversation with the LLM.
Now, my setup is:
- VSCode (without copilot) / Helix
- Claude (active coding)
- Rover (background agent coding). Note I'm a Rover developer
And I feel more productive and less exhausted.